
Title: The European Union Emissions Trading System reduced CO2 emissions despite low prices
Authors: Patrick Bayer (Strathclyde) and Michael Aklin (Pittsburgh)
Journal: PNAS

All statistical analyses were done in R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05) using RStudio Version 1.2.1335
Machine: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4650U CPU @ 1.70Ghz 2.30Ghz with 8GB RAM

This version: 13 April 2020
Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918128117


Table of contents:

BayerAklin_2020.pdf					Main paper
BayerAklin_2020_SI.pdf				Supplementary information

./Data
ETS_analyis.RData					Data for main analysis
ETS_analysis_sector.RData			Data for sectoral analysis

./Analysis
GSynth_main.R						Produces the main gsynth results (Tab 1, Fig 2, SI4, SI8, SI9, and SI10)
GSynth_sectr.R						Produces the main sectoral gsynth results (Tab 2)
SI2_Goodness-of-match_sector.R		Provides goodness-of-match analysis for sectoral data
SI3_Robustness_modelspec.R			Provides robustness checks of main results with additional control variables
SI5ab_Robustness_eu.R				Provides robustness checks for EU15 and EU15 countries
SI5c_Robustness_leaveoneout.R		Provides 'leave-one-out' robustness
SI6_Robustness_years.R				Provides robustness analysis for different treatment years
SI7_GSynth_transport_placebo.R		Placebo test for unregulated transport sector emissions

./Figures
	./bycountry						Provides by-country results (SI4) and plots by-country raw data (SI10)
	./goodness						Provides goodness-of-match plots by country (SI2)
	./main							Provides main results plots from Tab 1 and Tab 2 in main text
	./si							Provides all other plots used in SI